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Florida Bar v. Went For It, Inc. , 515 U.S. 618 (1995), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld a state's restriction on lawyer advertising under the First Amendment's commercial speech doctrine.
Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998), is a US labor law case of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court identified the circumstances under which an employer may be held liable under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for the acts of a supervisory employee whose sexual harassment of subordinates has created a hostile work environment amounting to employment ...
A case theory (aka theory of case, theory of a case, or theory of the case) is “a detailed, coherent, accurate story of what occurred" involving both a legal theory (i.e., claims/causes of action or affirmative defenses) and a factual theory (i.e., an explanation of how a particular course of events could have happened).
George Euripedes Tragos (born in Chicago, Illinois on July 15, 1949) is a Criminal Defense and Personal Injury attorney located in Clearwater, Florida.He has participated in a number of cases that have received national attention; these include the Terri Schiavo case, a civil suit against Nick Hogan, and the Stephen Coffeen case in which he successfully argued what has been dubbed the "Red ...
The website offers free case law, codes, opinion summaries, and other basic legal texts, with paid services for its attorney directory and webhosting. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2007, The New York Times reported that Justia was spending around "$10,000 a month" in order "to copy documents" from the United States Supreme Court and publish them online, to be ...
The State of Florida does not have authority to enforce the Florida Bingo Statute on the Seminole Tribe of Florida's reservation, even though Florida is a Public Law 280 state, because the Bingo Statute is regulatory rather than prohibitory in nature. Court membership; Judges sitting: Lewis R. Morgan, Paul Hitch Roney, and Phyllis A. Kravitch
In addition, Law held leadership positions in numerous Florida-based organizations, including the Florida Council of 100 and the Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corporation. [5] She was the CEO and chair of the Board of Fowler White Boggs, a prominent Florida law firm, during its merger with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney in 2014. [6] [7]
Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires U.S. states to provide attorneys to criminal defendants who are unable to afford their own.